The Bitcoin (BTC) ecosystem is once again rattled by controversy as accusations fly between core developers, miners and node operators over a coordinated effort to undermine Bitcoin Knots , an alternative implementation of Bitcoin Core. What started as a series of mocking remarks and a leaked live video has escalated into claims of an actual Denial of Service (DOS) attack against users running Knots nodes, threatening the decentralized nature of BTC itself.
Bitcoin Knots Nodes Face Attack By Core Devs
Luke Dashjr, Core developer and CTO of Ocean Mining has raised alarms on X social media, warning users to take extra precautions as bad actors were targeting individual Knot nodes. Dashjr shared a video showing Bitcoin core devs admitting to an attack on Knot nodes.